Menopause-related changes in body fat distribution

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 904, Issue , 2000, Pages 502-506

  Toth, Michael J ^a   Tchernof, André ^a   Sites, Cynthia K ^a   Poehlman, Eric T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRUNK;

EID: 0034122576     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06506.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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